Suwawa

E683699

Suwawa is an Austronesian language spoken by the Suwawa people in the northern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Suwawa canonical 3

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
alternativeName Bonda NERFINISHED
Bonda’ NERFINISHED
Bonda’ language NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Atinggola language NERFINISHED
Bolango language NERFINISHED
Gorontalo language NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Indonesia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottologName Suwawa NERFINISHED
hasDomain home and community domains
hasEthnicGroup Suwawa people NERFINISHED
hasEthnologueEntry Suwawa language entry
hasGlottocode suwa1241
hasISO6393Code swu
hasLinguisticResource basic grammatical sketches
descriptive wordlists
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
agglutinative morphology
hasNumberOfSpeakers several thousand (approximate, low tens of thousands)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in some descriptions)
prenasalized stops
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language in Indonesia
locatedNear Gulf of Tomini NERFINISHED
partOf Greater Central Philippine languages NERFINISHED
region northern Sulawesi NERFINISHED
spokenBy Suwawa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Indonesia
North Sulawesi NERFINISHED
Sulawesi NERFINISHED
subclassOf Malayo-Polynesian language
threatenedBy language shift to Indonesian
language shift to Manado Malay
usedFor daily communication within Suwawa communities
local cultural practices
oral tradition
usedIn Gorontalo Province NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.